Boyce Recruitment Blog

Over the past few years we have witnessed steady growth in digital job roles, however this has resulted in a surge in demand for a range of limited candidates.
Whilst it is common to learn digital skills in schools, colleges and universities, many employers are asking for specific skills for their businesses which do not fall into the general skills category. Job roles in demand include content producers, web editors, web developers, technical projects managers and online marketing staff.

Competition for these skills is fierce and employers have found it has become increasingly difficult to recruit – and then retain – people with the right skills.
85% of companies express concern that the skills shortage will continue to have a negative impact on their online business’ growth in coming years.

It is vital as a work seeker for this industry, to keep up to date with changing technologies. Learning skills like HTML, Photoshop, dreamweaver, CMS, XML, as well as SEO techniques and online mechanics is vital when considering a career in the online industry.

There will probably come a time when these skills are taught alongside other skills in our schools and universities however this isnt happening yet and in order increase your employment opportunities, increasing your digital knowledge will be critical. The digital sector may end up being one of the few employment sectors that experiences steady salary increases over the next few years.

Companies are offering all kinds of interactive tools to their clients for presentations, marketing and also online procurement. And, in recruitment, it isn’t rare to hear of interviews being recorded for video presentation to clients.

The newspapers have been swamped with an alarming number of redundancies, and of even more concern have been the protests based in some industrial areas against the use of migrant workers for British jobs.

We should remind ourselves that non British nationals have helped many British businesses work internationally, particularly when skills for language speakers have been short.

Our universities and schools have been criticised for their lack of support in promoting the importance of learning languages and we are often approached by university graduates who are monolingual. Competitive edge is offered to those that are bilingual or multilingual as now many jobs where language are required can be found in pretty much most businesses including public sector, education, local & national government, export, pharmaceutical, medical firms, professional consultancies, translation and, let us not forget, financial services.

In the midst of all the bad news we must remind ourselves that every cloud has a silver lining. In this case this comes in the form of the 2012 Olympics.

Many UK firms will be planning to target our international visitors and also make the most of any business opportunities that may arise as a result of planning and preparation for 2012. We need to be able to demonstrate that we are competent international hosts. This means not only being able to speak the languages of the world but also being able to work and understand the cultural elements to making the whole process a success.

In a critical, tight economy, it has never been more important to understand that having a greater knowledge of our own and other cultures will help us build good working relationships and who knows, we may be pleasantly surprised to see an increase in the proportion of bilingual or multilingual jobs in London over the next 2-3 years.

It’s Monday 1st February 2009 and I can’t believe that in 2009 we haven’t been able to get our act together enough to make a modern city like London function in the snow.

We deal with people from all over the world, many of whom are used to living and working in minus 40C degree weather conditions and 3 months of snow fall. These people have come to London for its cosmopolitan life and modern ways. In some ways London is more antiquated than we wish to believe.Today the majority of the London workforce has been stranded at home and unable to get to their place of work / school.

We knew it would snow today as the weather forecasters have been warning us about this for 5 days. What happened?